run command prompt as administrator. use taskkill /im /f to end the process – tumchaaditya Jun 15, 2012 at 12:08 3 @tumchaaditya: taskkill /im : The process can only be terminated forcefully. taskkill /F /im : There is no running intance of the task. : ( TaskMgr as admin also can't kill it: Access is denied. Type cd.. to exit current directory. Comes to the main directory i.e.C:> directory. Now type adb kill-server and press enter. Now go to the adb directory means the path where adb is located ex.-> [your path]\AndroidStudioProjects\sdk\sdk\platform-tools. Delete the adb.exe. Download latest platform-tools from here. All Activity; Home ; English Forum ; Products for Home ; Kaspersky Anti-Virus ; Turn off Kaspersky anti virus. But Says it is off, but there is still running in Task Manager. and cannot right click and “End task” access is denied. After clicking on the task manager to see if something was running on my computer, it miraculously opened. This was mind-boggling to me. I would have assumed my computer is just frozen, but no, task manager works, tasks are running, I just can't see it? (strangely, no launchers like steam or discord were running, only windows tasks, like Vay Tiền Nhanh Chỉ Cần Cmnd.

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